I watched Transformers for the first time tonight

[kentauros]

and The Iron Giant is a thoroughly superior film in every way! :D

Plus, no one dies even though there is some destruction at certain parts in the film. The only death is of a deer and that's where the heart of the film comes out.

(The link above has spoilers in the plot description, in case anyone has never seen it.)

[kentauros]

1. proof

:P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITnyyYfULQA&NR=1

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. I actually felt dumb watching that movie. (Transformers, that is.)

A cartoon about anthropromorphic gadgets and vehicles? Fine. I'm willing to suspend my belief about that concept.

But a live action movie about anthropromorphic gadgets and vehicles? With actual live actors on screen? I'm sorry, I just can't get over it. It just looked.....stupid. That's all I can say about it. It looked stupid, and I felt stupid watching it because the whole backstory on the whole movie was just so....stupid.

[kentauros]

4. I never got into the cartoon like so many did.

It just wasn't that great to me. I remember Astroboy growing up and loved it as a kid, since it was meant for children even if, like Jay Ward's cartoons, there were elements to the story for adults to appreciate. I never got that impression from Transformers (the movie.) What I did come away from it with was that it was primarily a teen movie, with all the teen sexual innuendo, and from alien robots at that!

The reactions of the populace were okay, but the few scenes with children in them (other than for the kid in "Qatar - the Middle East", as if I didn't know where Qatar was) was that not a single one of them was the least bit frightened or freaked out. One scene of an injured woman freaked out on the street with a robot bounding over her was about the limit of realistic emotions and reactions from anyone. The rest seemed to be cheap-shots for humor or uncaring death and destruction for maximum CGI/"cool!" effect.

Yeah, it did seem like a big military recruitment film, though I think Paul Voerhoven would have done a far better job ;)

The Iron Giant made me cry; Transformers made me cringe and find plot holes.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. As opposed to Qatar, Indiana.

Dontcha know?

[kentauros]

11. No, but then again

there's Paris, Texas ;)

However, I strongly suspect that Qatar, Indiana isn't a desert and doesn't have all the natives dressed in native-Qatar/Middle eastern clothing with Qatar/Middle Eastern architecture everywhere, same as there's no Eiffel Tower or Arc de Triomphe in Paris, Texas :P

[Blue_Tires]

9. yeah, it just seemed overly childish to me

granted, when i was a kid, i had the toys, the comics and watched the show, but this movie (which a friend had to drag me to) did nothing for me...

[Swede]

3. It seemed like a long military recruitment ad.

Maybe I was in a cynical mood that night.

[NewJeffCT]

6. I thought

the military spent most of the movie getting their asses kicked?

[Swede]

8. But they triumphed in the end,like all heroes.

This seemed like the ultimate military product placement ad to me.

[Blue_Tires]

10. wait till the G.I. Joe (!) movie comes out...

[NewJeffCT]

5. I never liked the Transformers cartoon or comic books as a kid

But, I thought the Transformers movie was an enjoyable popcorn movie. And, Megan Fox looked friggin' hot in the movie.